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Teleportík dominated the final presentations of the ICUK business incubator, the audience award went to the Kočárapp app for mothers
The business incubator of the Innovation Center of the Ústí nad Labem Region (ICUK) once again concluded its educational program Startup Go! with final presentations of graduates in front of a professional jury and the public. The popular event called Startup Go Grill, in which startups have only 5 minutes to present, took place this year on Friday, December 12th in the premises of the innovation center. The business incubator of the Innovation Center of the Ústí nad Labem Region closed its 14th run with traditional public presentations Startup Go Grill. The program began in September…
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Michal Jakl – founder of the Positive Ústí projects. Wanderings through space and time
And do you know this one? Positive Ústí...? Or Wanderings in Space and Time? Behind both projects is an exceptionally active person - a university lecturer, application developer, GIS specialist and, above all, a person who really likes the place where he lives, and so tries to get to know it and bring it closer to others. That place is Ústí nad Labem and the guest of the next episode of the # podcast New Start was Michal Jakl.
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No forms, just concrete work. This is how companies evaluate the ICUK Platinn program in a large survey
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. That's why, together with an external agency, we asked 42 companies that went through our Platinn program how satisfied they were. The result? An NPS score of +60 and the vast majority of entrepreneurs who would do it again. Read what the experts helped them with the most and how they praise the "no paperwork". The ICUK Platinn program is not about theorizing. It is about connecting owners and directors of established companies with top experts from practice.…
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FRAME4CITY
Founder Michal Polic originally came to ICUK with the Reframed project, with which he graduated from the incubator. However, at the suggestion of consultants, he revised his plan and used the background of Frame4City to develop the APOLLON platform. The company is now solving the inefficient design of photovoltaics in cooperation with partners: instead of manual drawing, the software creates accurate 3D twins of buildings from drone images. Thanks to artificial intelligence, it automatically suggests the optimal solution, including documentation. ICUK helped the company not only with the transformation of the product, but also…
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Chomutov's CHOBOT team won the regional robotics competition and is flying to the USA
On Thursday, November 27, 2025, the Faculty of Science of the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně (FřF UJEP), in cooperation with the Innovation Center of the Ústí Region (ICUK), organized the first Regional Robotics Competition inspired by the international FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Four teams competed in the SLUNETA Sport Center: CHOBOT from Chomutov, CircuitBreakers from Litoměřice, LEDbot from Ústí nad Labem and PaperBox from Štětí. The winner secured participation and the opportunity to represent the Ústí Region and the Czech Republic at the prestigious FRC competition, which will take place in…
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MotoKeška: When passion for one track meets business. Czech startup wants to conquer Europe with gamification
When intuition meets reality: How MotoKeška teaches Czech bikers to rediscover the world It's a classic scenario. You have a great job, you travel the world, but an idea sprouts in your head that won't let you sleep. In David's case, the idea came thousands of kilometers from home. As the director of the popular show Auto Moto World on Czech Television, he spent hours on the saddle of a motorcycle across Europe and Africa. It was there, in the dust of the roads and the roar of engines,…
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#JE TO ENERGY. We have mapped (our) energy heart of the Czech Republic
The Innovation Center of the Ústí nad Labem Region has prepared a new brochure focused on the energy transformation in the region. The publication presents an overview of projects, companies, municipalities and research institutions that are involved in the development of modern energy in the Ústí nad Labem Region. The brochure presents specific activities that are taking place in the region - from community photovoltaic projects to new energy technologies, to research and European initiatives in the field of hydrogen, geothermal energy and energy storage. It also focuses on cooperation between the public sector, companies…
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From idea to application. A generation of digital projects is growing in the ICUK business incubator
When four different projects come together in a business incubator and all are working on their own applications, it becomes clear that it is more than just a coincidence. Thanks to its incubator, ICUK is becoming a haven for young creators who want to simplify life, connect the community or bring a new form of experience through technology. Four projects are currently tuning their applications in the incubator. They show that developing your own apps does not have to be exclusive and can…
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Games in a new guise: high school students improved classic board games using 3D printing in 24 hours
Each of us has at least one board game at home. So how about reviving it, improving it with some new game elements? Making it more fun, faster, more innovative? That was exactly the task of the second 3D PRINTING Hackathon this year, which was organized by the Innovation Center of the Ústí nad Labem (ICUK) last week. From November 7 to 8, 24 high school students in 6 teams from Děčín, Litvínov, Štětí, Teplice and Ústí nad Labem gathered in Pavilion G of the Garden of Bohemia, and worked on…
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Worksheet.ws
The idea for Worksheet.ws was born in Michael Doubek's head at an unusual time - during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. He graduated in 2020, and his homeroom teacher was devoted to the class at that time, despite distance learning. She later described to him how demanding it was at that time. He remembered that she would correct assignments until 2 in the morning so that she could get up at 6 in the morning and prepare for classes, Michael recalls. Then when…
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